Harker v. City of Holyoke

How courts have described this case

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• Housing Court's subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate tort case against city, which was tried to conclusion in Housing Court, could not be challenged collaterally in separate subsequent action in Superior Court, even if Housing Court did not have jurisdiction
• judgment is final where plaintiffs litigate issue, lose on merits, and chose not to appeal
• “If we were to permit such an attack as a general rule, the finality of judgments would be substantially impaired”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).